Word: communist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hadn't Whittaker Chambers once said that his disclosure of the Communist conspiracy was like an act of war, like shooting an enemy? "You were comparing yourself to a soldier in combat?" asked Defense Attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker, in a mocking tone...
...week, under questions, Chambers sat in the witness chair while Stryker tried to destroy his credibility, tried to rattle him, taunted him. Through it all Chambers, ex-Communist and former espionage agent, sat with a kind of melancholy serenity, hands folded in his lap, occasionally stroking one cheek. Stryker, in savage crossexamination, had already raked over Chambers' moral character as a young man (TIME, June 13). Last week, like a leopard on the prowl, Stryker hunted through Chambers' spoken and already recorded words for inconsistencies. Sometimes Stryker had help in the hunt from no less a person than...
...spite of these fears and the continued Russian refusal to recognize the non-Communist union, the strike meeting agreed to submit the proposed settlement to a ballot...
...drive to break the Roman Catholic Church, the Czech Communist government last week recruited 118 pliable Catholics, including two monsignors and a sprinkling of priests, to form an "anticapitalist" Catholic Action Organization. At the same time, Dr. Antonin Mandl, secretary of the Vatican-recognized Catholic Action, was arrested and sent to join the 100-odd priests in Czech prisons. Education Minister Vaclav Kopecky announced that henceforth all Catholic seminaries will be provided with political instructors. They will teach compulsory courses in "social progress," which seminarians must pass to continue their studies...
...China toward Communism. Thrust out into the sea between them lies Korea, which is moving in both directions. Last week President Truman asked Congress for $150 million of ECAid to keep South Korea stable after U.S. occupation forces complete their withdrawal in a few weeks. If South Korea falters, Communist North Korea will gobble it, and that, in turn, would encourage anti-democratic forces from Japan around to India...